New York City has always been shaped by migrants. Unsanctioned in a Sanctuary City, collectively created by high school filmmakers from Educational Video Center’s Youth Documentary Workshop, examines what it means to be
On a December night, the sound of motorcycles and fireworks fills the streets of Medellín, as the improbable connection between two young men from almost opposite worlds unfolds through a conversation that lays them bare
A suicidal man finds a body and a briefcase in the woods.
Marco, an Australian-Italian art historian living in Rome, is quietly let go from his teaching post after grief leaves him distant from his students. He returns to Cortona, where his estranged wife Julia and young daught
Helpless rituals and the smell of time gone stale: a portrait of a village that used to live from mining and where successful structural change seems unwilling to take hold.
This feature-length documentary film, Extraordinary Aliens, started from a personal attempt to document a specific context—people who have migrated from China to the U.S. for higher education in arts and lingered in NYC
Perspective and permanence inform Ben Russell’s playful La Prospettiva (1653), filmed in the Colonnade at the Palazzo Spada in Rome, capturing the central composition of the Baroque illusionism masterpiece but also modes
In a world where the materials to create computers undergo a shortage, computers and the Internet mysteriously work again thanks in part to a company known as Falcon Corp. A man by the name of Ron Processor awakes from a
Summer heat over the Adriatic. At the Kolovare pool in Zadar, the older boys rule with a testosterone-fuelled pecking order in which the slightly younger Lovre has yet to find his place. A look from a girl, a leap from t
"Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down" is a documentary film about British social policy. The focus is on the political struggle against neoliberal austerity policies, which have their origins in the hated Thatcher gove
A community marked by the scarcity of its supplies lives by one essential rule: the amount of people over the age of 10 must never be greater than 700. When a child turns 10, often a sacrifice follows. Alba's tenth birth
Accidentally locked out of the theater just minutes before curtain, two young actors and ex-lovers are forced to confront the unspoken truths of their breakup and the fear of a future about to tear them apart.
Part II of the "Dream" duology. He opens a book and falls asleep. What he sees is not a nightmare. It's a walk to the sea. Two seagulls. And feelings they never had before.
A struggling tenant wants to escape his Pay-As-You-Go Life Tariff, but must first confront a relentlessly cheerful Customer Support officer conducting a routine “Life Utility Check-Up”. A Kafka-esque comedy set in a worl
I left the psychiatric hospital yesterday. I filmed myself in the shower of the CAPSUL 17 emergency unit. I felt the need to create something that would bear witness to the mixed-state episode I went through. This is the
When a powerful political wife kidnaps the young woman she suspects is having an affair with her husband, a tense spring afternoon of weed, whiskey, and psychological warfare spirals into a deadly loyalty test.
As a forestry worker, Jürgen Spottke (b. 1941) once helped plant the spruce forests of Upper Lusatia. As a wood artist, he drew on the coexistence of Sorbs and Germans. Today he is watching the forests die from drought a
After recently traveling together through Europe, a group of six friends discovers that one of them may have returned as a changeling.